Valve And Blizard Finally Agrees On Dota Trademark

Today Valve and Blizzard worked out an agreement due to a trademark problem that had to deal with Dota.

Due to the agreement, Valve will continue to be using the Dota name for Dota 2 and Dota merchandise while Blizzard will be using "Dota" for non-commercial Warcraft III and StarCraft II maps. This will be forcing Blizzard to change their StarCraft II Blizzard Dota game name to Blizzard All-Stars.

"Both Blizzard and Valve recognize that, at the end of the day, players just want to be able to play the games they're looking forward to, so we're happy to come to an agreement that helps both of us stay focused on that," said Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design at Blizzard Entertainment. "As part of this agreement, we're going to be changing the name of Blizzard DOTA to Blizzard All-Stars, which ultimately better reflects the design of our game. We look forward to going into more detail on that at a later date."



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